Abstract
Electron backscattering in a Luttinger liquid with an impurity is investigated in the presence of zero point motion of the phonon lattice. The impurity can mean either a mass defect, an elastic defect, or a pinning defect. The phonon spectrum is then affected by the presence of the defect, which enters in the renormalization group (RG) equations for backscattering. The RG equation becomes dependent on the energy cutoff for finite Debye frequency giving rise to finite energy effects. We compute the local density of states and show how the renormalization group flow is affected by a finite .
- Received 28 February 2005
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.72.165427
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